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Post by Leif Bloomquist on Apr 18, 2006 20:03:10 GMT -5
In my quest for 100% uptime, I've now invested in an inexpensive Uninterruptible Power Supply for my BBS (and Linux/Win2K boxes). Actually, this was partially prompted by spring being thunderstorm season in Toronto, and my power often gets knocked out for about a minute at a time.  The BBS needs to be rebooted manually of course. This happened most recently last week right after I had left for a 4-day Easter weekend in South Porcupine, Ontario about 1,000 km away. So I could ping my DSL router but nothing on the other side - argh! The back of the UPS box gives "typical" uptimes for various brands of computers - no Commodore, of course ;-) Anyone else running their BBS off a UPS? |
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Post by Excalibur on Apr 21, 2006 6:17:15 GMT -5
You betcha! A few of the PC's in my office are just on surge strips but all of my servers and all the commodore equipment are on backups. I shudder to think what a good surge could do to the ole commodore.
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Post by cube on Dec 29, 2006 22:29:12 GMT -5
Back in the day you had one of three different power supplies for the '64. The three-month version - a stock power supply that would always die a day or two after the 90 day warranty was up - The longer lasting stock power supply (if it outlasted the 90 day period, you were probably good for at least a couple of years) and the "aftermarket" heavy duty power supply - which effectively lasted forever. At that time, UPS was virtually unheard of, except as a package delivery company!
John
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The BBS needs to be rebooted manually of course.
